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NSA is saving your facial web images, millions on daily basis: Snowden

The National Security Agency (NSA) collects millions of facial images transmitted through the Internet and uses them for various facial recognition programs, according to classified documents leaked by Snowden. A recent article published in The New York Times by James Risen and Laura Poitras, the journalist who along with Glen Greenwald was handed over the […]

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Edward Snowden and journalist Laura Poitras Win Truth-Telling Award

Both were key players in exposing the US government surveillance program that has outraged the national and international communities alike. Laura Poitras and Edward Snowden Ex-NSA tech Edward Snowden and Laura Poitras were awarded the 2014 Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling, an award named after the Vietnam veteran Ron Ridenhour, a whistleblower and an investigative journalist, who […]

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